April K Wilhelm

Biographic Data

ID6683970
NAMEApril K Wilhelm
GIVEN NAMESApril K
FAMILY NAMEWilhelm
SIGNATUREWILHELM A K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Minnesota
ORCID0000-0002-1562-0400
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • What is sustainable participatory research? Insights from a school-university partnership

    María Cecilia Schwedhelm, April K Wilhelm et al.ARTICLEEducational Action Research2023

    A growing number of researchers are employing participatory research approaches to address social determinants of health. Despite evidence supporting school-based participatory action research (PAR) approaches as powerful health intervention strategies and recent calls to assess the implementation of PAR processes and outcomes, there is a paucity of research that addresses the meaning of sustainability in participatory health interventions in sch…

  • Key Informant Perspectives on Somali Adolescent Tobacco Use

    Open AccessApril K Wilhelm, Rebekah Pratt et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2022

    INTRODUCTION: Somali American adolescent tobacco use has increased over the past decade amid a high prevalence of tobacco use among Somali American adults. While established adolescent tobacco use determinants may apply for Somali youth, a deeper understanding of these influences is imperative to the development of effective prevention strategies for this population. This study aimed to identify risk and protective factors influencing Somali Amer…

  • Somali, Latino, and Hmong Youth Perceptions of School Connectedness

    Open AccessApril K Wilhelm, Martha Bigelow et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2022

    Purpose: School connectedness positively influences adolescent health outcomes and is a key social determinant of health, yet, contributors to school connectedness for youth from immigrant communities remain poorly defined. Methods: This community-based participatory research study uses thematic analysis to identify contributors to Somali, Latino, and Hmong (SLH) adolescents' school connectedness. We conducted nine focus groups with 71 SLH male a…

  • Belonging to Three Worlds

    Open AccessApril K Wilhelm, Michele Allen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Immigrant family relationships help to buffer the adolescent adoption of health risk behaviors but can be strained by post-immigration structural and cultural barriers. This study qualitatively examines how Somali adolescent-parent relationship factors influence Somali adolescent tobacco use and identifies areas for further family support to prevent Somali adolescent tobacco use. We conducted fifteen key informant interviews with professionals se…

  • Evaluation of a school-based participatory intervention to improve school environments using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

    Open AccessApril K Wilhelm, María Cecilia Schwedhelm et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The CFIR is a useful framework for the assessment of participatory research trial implementation. Our findings underscore how the framework can be readily adapted to further strengthen its fit as a tool to examine project implementation in this context

  • Applying a Race(ism)-Conscious Adaptation of the CFIR Framework to Understand Implementation of a School-Based Equity-Oriented Intervention

    Michele Allen, April K Wilhelm et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2021

    Equity-oriented interventions should consider structural racism within the CFIR model to better understand intervention uptake

  • Lessons Learned in Implementing Youth and Parent Participatory Action Research in a School-Based Intervention

    April K Wilhelm, Shannon Pergament et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2021Cited by: 2References: 2

    PAR holds promise for application in other settings to address institutional change and social determinants of health

  • Patterns of Tobacco Use and Related Protective Factors Among Somali Youth in the United States

    Open AccessApril K Wilhelm, Michael J Parks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2020

  • Mental health in Somali youth in the United States

    April K Wilhelm, Annie-Laurie Mcree et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2018Cited by: 1References: 10

    Objectives: Community, school, family, and individual factors protect against mental illness in general samples of adolescents. How these assets apply to Somali youth resettled to the United States (U.S.), a group with significant trauma exposure, remains unclear. We aimed to quantify which protective factors are associated with lower prevalence of depressive symptoms, suicidality, and self-injury among Somali youth in the U.S. compared with thei…